Maruhachi Coffee Roaster

A renovated former gynecology clinic building cobaco tobata consists of five shops standing along a prefectural road in Tobata district of Kitakyushu. On the first floor is a coffee shop Maruhachi Coffee Roaster opened in 2017 by Miyako Yachigo.  She says that the world of coffee, which she entered at the age of 35 after working at a call center for a major company, gave her a chance to face herself and taught her the harshness of business, the depth of the industry, the warmth of people and the breadth of the world she could connect with.  An encounter with a book Opening the retro looking door made of wood and frosted glass, you find Maruhachi Coffee Roaster just to the right of a corridor with a Showa-era atmosphere...